Genre: Drama – Page 6 – Wimbledon Film Club

Katyn

In this important film, Wajda, at the age of 82, offers in a starkly accessible way the truth of what happened in the Katyn Forest in 1940 when 15,000 to 22,000 Polish officers were rounded up and shot by the Russian KGB.

The Good the Bad the Weird

Set in 1930s Manchuria, three rival Korean adventurers vie with each other for possession of a treasure map promising vast fortune.

Milk

Milk is one of those rare films that remains entirely gripping even though the audience knows the outcome before they enter the cinema.

The White Ribbon

Unsettling incidents take place in a small village in north Germany before World War I.

The Queen of Spades

In 1806 St Petersburg, Captain Suvorin of the Engineers (Walbrook) becomes resentful of his rich friend, Prince Andrei (Howard), and the circle of Guards officers who gamble their money at faro, a form of snap in which fortunes can be won or lost on the turn of a card.

35 Shots of Rum

Widowed father Lionel (Descas) lives with his adult daughter Josephine (Diop).

Katalin Varga

A woman, Katalin, (Hilda Peter), is driven from her home by her husband when he finds out the child they have brought up is not his.

Bicycle Thieves

This classic neorealist masterpiece brings poetry to a poor family mans struggle to find work in post war Italy.

Conversations with My Gardener

A disillusioned Parisian artist (Auteuil – Jean de Florette 1987, La Fille Sur Le Pont 2000, Cache 2007) facing divorce, returns to his childhood home in rural France.

Onegin

In early nineteenth century Russia, a young aristocrat, Onegin (Ralph Fiennes), disaffected by life and bored with salons and balls of St Petersburg society, goes to the countryside to take up the estate he has inherited from his uncle.

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